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The playwright and novelist Georg Hirschfeld was born in Berlin in 1873, the son of a businessman whose factory he managed, before encompassing on a literary career with his first drama “Die Mütter” [The mothers] about Berlin’s Jewish middle class. The play was a big success in 1896 and many years after. Georg Hirschfeld died in Munich in 1942 (?).

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Studio portrait of writer Georg Hirschfeld, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2491.